Ocopla Baptist Church
Ocopla Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Philadelphia, MS 39350. It is one of 100 churches in Philadelphia, and one of 11 Baptist congregations in the city.
Philadelphia, MS, 39350Ocopla Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,481 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Mississippi — 71,872 across the United States on The Church Map.
Baptists pressed harder than anyone for religious liberty in America, and the freedom every other congregation on this map enjoys is partly what they won. They have carried believers' baptism and the priesthood of every believer to more of the world than almost anyone — and the Black Baptist church has repeatedly been the conscience of the whole nation.
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The community around Ocopla Baptist Church
It takes 3.5 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated, and about a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. A scattered parish is still a parish.
Pray for the families driving a long way to everything — to work, to a hospital, to this door on a Sunday morning.
- Social Isolation: 34.0%
- Child Poverty: 32.7% (14.7–50.7%)
- Obesity: 39.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 21.9%
- Poverty Rate: 16.4% (9.5–23.4%)
- Food Insecurity: 16.1%
- Diabetes: 15.0%
- Unemployment: 6.4% (1.6–11.3%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Ocopla Baptist Church
- Union Grove Church — 1.1 mi away
- Center Hill Church — 2 mi away
- Mount Zion Church — 2.3 mi away
- Mars Hill Church of God in Christ — 2.8 mi away
- Poplar Springs Church — 2.8 mi away
- Sandtown United Methodist Church — 2.8 mi away
- Mount Nelson Church — 3.1 mi away
- Hopewell Church — 3.3 mi away
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — 3.5 mi away
- Greenfield Missionary Baptist Church — 3.9 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- East Philadelphia Baptist Church — 4.2 mi away
- Grace Baptist Church — 4.7 mi away
- East Philadelphia Baptist Church — 4.8 mi away
- Trinity Baptist Church — 5.3 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 5.4 mi away
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